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[WhitewaterWoman]

Interesting that yours have feathers on their heads, ours are bald. Our frogs and crustaceans must bury themselves deeper in the mud than yours, that's the only reason I can think of for needing a bald head.

And what we call a White Ibis is also known as the Sacred Ibis, from Egyptian mythology when ibis saved them from a plague of frogs. They're the same species.

You are probably correct about the bald head. Our ibis are shallow water feeders.

We have a Wood Stork that looks similar with a bald head, but is not an ibis. It is much larger.

Another bald headed bird is the otherwise splendid roseate spoonbill.

Both are in the same family as ibises, but are not ibises.

 

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A stork like bird we have is the Jabiru, but our spoonbills are just plain white. Neither of them are small birds, larger than geese.

Our pelicans are different to yours too, black and white and much larger.

 

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Found out recently that my ASD boyfriend also has ADHD. We switched on for fun this video:

then another one from same creator about ADHD. And the more the man talks the more we look at one another like this

Then he started explaining that yeah he connects to ADHD a lot, but hoped that I wont notice cause maybe I will leave him if i think that he is very problematic...like... what?
But all in all was funny, and explains now why he is all over the place when he cleans, yet gets ultra grumpy when I put plate not where he is used to it being..

 

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Camel invasion.

'Large bull camels weighing hundreds of kilos' move into NT communities

 

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Camel invasion.

'Large bull camels weighing hundreds of kilos' move into NT communities

Only NT communities - autistics weren't affected.

 

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A very big hole.

That's the Kalgoorlie Super Pit, a gold mine.

 

[negative-speedforce]

Happy 30th Anniversary to one of, if not the absolute worst, episodes of Star Trek! A true stinker!

 

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Cattle mustering in Australia's Northern Territory, we do things a little bit different in this part of the world.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Cattle mustering in Australia's Northern Territory, we do things a little bit different in this part of the world.

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I liked the video, but the first thing I noticed, near the beginning was: A New York Yankee ball cap? !

The old movie clips were like our real old Wild West days of cattle ranching, when huge herds were run like that from state to state following the grazing and the market.

I have never seen cattle herded with pickup trucks and tied by their horns to available trees. Gum trees?

I suspect many won't watch the video, so I am going to point out this video is about the first ever ranch (Australian station) owned and operated by an indigenous person in Australia.

And, the station, in addition to running its cattle business, invites wayward indigenous youth from the cities to work. He does this on his own, no government program or funds.

 

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I have never seen cattle herded with pickup trucks and tied by their horns to available trees. Gum trees?

Gum Tree is just a generic term for any eucalypt, so it basically covers every tree in Australia and is usually only used to differentiate between a native tree and an import. The trees in that video mostly look like Northern Stringy Barks.

North Queensland has wet tropics because of the mountains but the rest of the north has arid tropics. Incredibly lush and green for the 4 months of the wet season but for the rest of the year it looks pretty much like what you see in that video. I mentioned to @Judge once before about dust and computers when living up there.

 

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I liked the video, but the first thing I noticed, near the beginning was: A New York Yankee ball cap? !

You'll see them anywhere that you go in the world.

 

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Different business model.

Or an alternative title – How to confuse American tourists.

I like watching reaction videos from foreigners visiting Australia and our shopping centres amaze Americans because what at first glance looks so familiar turns out to be a little bit different to what they’re used to. We don’t use the word Mall for them here, that word has a different meaning in British English.

Many of our shopping centres are huge, even by US standards, with a large variety of different speciality shops, that part fits the American model. But also in the same place will be two or three different grocery supermarkets from the major chains and that seems to raise a few eyebrows. Then they explore a little further and they see this:

Kmart is one of Australia’s most popular department stores, it’s a big business. It hasn’t been affiliated with the US company for many decades but it kept the name and the logo. Here they’re owned by the Coles Meyer Corporation, Coles is also one of the leading grocery supermarket chains and Meyer is another department store chain. In Australia the same company also owns Target and you’ll find them in most of our larger shopping centres too.

And that’s the different business model and why I think those companies are thriving here where they’re struggling in the US. In fact I think in the US Kmart is almost extinct. In the US it appears that most of these types of shops are built to stand alone, maybe a couple of other little shops next door but nothing much, where as all of ours are inside large shopping centres that also have supermarkets and butchers and everything else you could want all in the one place and they all attract each other’s foot traffic.

Almost anything you need to buy, you got to a major shopping centre for it. Need to get some keys cut, might grab a few groceries while I’m here. Need to go to my local bank branch, might have a browse through Kmart while I’m at it, and check some of the prices in the supermarket on my way out.

Another difference with our Kmart and Target – they’re specifically department stores, they don’t sell groceries or hardware and our grocery chains don’t try to be department stores either. Our supermarkets also don’t sell alcohol, you have to go to a bottle shop for that. That’s because quite often supermarkets employ staff too young to be legally serving alcohol.

 

[Shevek]

What is your list of store departments? In North America, department store tools were some of our best for quality and price.

 

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What is your list of store departments? In North America, department store tools were some of our best for quality and price.

Here they only have a few simple and cheap tools, kitchen drawer type stuff, if you want decent tools then you go to a hardware store or a tools specialist. Our department stores sell homewares, clothing, kid's toys and sporting goods.

In Kmart the range is huge and in general the prices are pretty good.
https://www.kmart.com.au/

Where as here Target is a fairly useless shop that concentrates on women's clothing plus a few overpriced household appliances. I don't understand how they're still in business, even the Coles Meyer Corp has declared that Target is going to end soon but that was over a decade ago.
https://www.target.com.au/

Our other leading department store that is in competition with Kmart is called BigW, owned by one of the leading supermarket chains Woolworths.
https://www.bigw.com.au/

*remember that those prices are in Aussie dollars, just slightly less than a Canadian dollar.

 

[Judge]

"Mall" is a bad word in American culture, whatever kind of retail structures you are talking about.

Considered an anachronism now in many places. Making ones that still exist kind of an oddity. We still have one in town, though it has a few glaring vacancies.

 

[Judge]

Where as here Target is a fairly useless shop that concentrates on women's clothing plus a few overpriced household appliances. I don't understand how they're still in business, even the Coles Meyer Corp has declared that Target is going to end soon but that was over a decade ago.
https://www.target.com.au/

Here many people consider Target (Pronounced Tar-Zhay) an overt step above Walmart and their customers. Even with higher prices...go figure.

Target is slightly closer to me than Walmart. But Walmart gets the lion's share of my green stuff.

So I patronize both. Sue me....

 

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"Mall" is a bad word in American culture, whatever kind of retail structures you are talking about.

Here, that same as in England, a mall is a street that is open to the sky and accessible to only pedestrian traffic. As soon as you put a roof over it it's no longer a mall, it's then an arcade.

 

[Judge]

Here, that same as in England, a mall is a street that is open to the sky and accessible to only pedestrian traffic. As soon as you put a roof over it it's no longer a mall, it's then an arcade.

We also have a Capitol Mall...the open space that spans from the Lincoln Memorial all the way to the Capitol building in Washington D.C.. Predominantly open only to pedestrian traffic as well.

Though tell that to extraterrestrials. Okay, so that was adjacent to the actual mall...north of constitution avenue... lol. But then a lot has changed since 1951. Even the Washington I recall doesn't exist as it once did. But the mall is still there...a nice part of the city.

The first time I recall hearing the word "mall". An "arcade" generally but not exclusively has a very different meaning here. Recalling the term used much longer ago and kind of disappearing.

 

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An "arcade" generally but not exclusively has a very different meaning here. Recalling the term used much longer ago and kind of disappearing.

Here Arcades were a very new and modern idea for shopping in the late 1800s. Like an old English High Street but roofed over and protected from the weather. Every major city had at least one, they were the greatest innovation in modern shopping in that era and changed the way in which people think about shopping.

And Australia tends to hang on to it's heritage and history rather than knocking it down and building over it.